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佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 2.49

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2.49

That old fellow has not yet reached complete decisiveness either. He composed another eulogy: (Clear indeed. How many people know? Knowing it yourself is half of it. Luckily there is the final phrase.)
Once handed over to Lord Lu, on what can one rely? (Throughout the great earth, such a person is hard to find. Whom do you bid to receive these words?)
Leaning back as you sit, do not take it to continue the ancestors' lamp. (A fellow in the weeds. Knocked down to sit beneath the Black Mountain. He has fallen into the ghost cave!)
Fit to face the evening clouds, not yet gathering as they return; (One or half a person. Bringing it up is already wrong. Truly he cannot get out.)
The distant mountains are boundlessly green, layer upon layer. (Blocking your eyes, blocking your ears! Drowning in a deep pit. Practice Chan for another thirty years!)

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